Hsin-an River Dam,Chinese (Xin’an River ReservoirChinese (Pinyin) Xin’anjiang Shuiku, or (Wade-Giles) romanization Hsin-an Chiang Shui-k’u, or (Pinyin) Xin’anjiang Shuiku, hydroelectric project at large artificial lake near the town of Hsin-an-chiang, Chekiang Xin’anjiang, northwestern Zhejiang province, southeastern China. It was created as part of a large hydroelectric project constructed between 1957 and 1977, its completion having apparently been much delayed by the ending of Soviet technical assistance to China. The project, started with considerable Soviet technical assistance, was not completed for some time, the delay apparently resulting from that assistance being withdrawn from China about 1960. On its completionit , the project was hailed as a triumph of Chinese technology. It consists of Its main component is a dam 344 feet (105 mmetres) high and 1,525 feet (465 metres) long built on the Hsin-an Xin’an River , (a tributary of the Fu-ch’un River (Ch’ien-t’ang River) in northwestern ChekiangFuchun River) at Xin’anjiang, close to Chien-te. It Jiande. This formed a reservoir about 60 miles (100 km) long and more than 6 miles (10 km) wide in places, with an area of about 225 square miles (580 square km).

The project was originally conceived as forming one of a series of hydroelectric stations in

Chekiang

Zhejiang. By 1980 the

project’s

dam’s four 72,500-kilowatt generators were in operation, and five additional generators were eventually added at nearby Huangtankou, bringing the river project to its planned capacity of